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REFUSES AID,
HOBBLES INTO
BUSH TO DIE
KALGOORLIE, Wednesday.
'I am very sick fella,' fatalistic-mmded 70-year-old aboriginal
Laverton Billy told a white prospector early last week.
The prospector, Thomas Greenway, who was camped in the
bush near Broad Arrow, offered Billy aid and food.
He took the food but refused the aid, preferring to hobble
off to the bush on a stick.
Friendly natives in the vicinity also offered to help Billy but
the old man was adamant. He merely pointed at his stomach, say
ing he was 'very sick fella' and told them to go away to their
'cobba cobba.'
He had been ailing for some months, he explained, and noth
ing they could do would help him.
At the week-end, according to a report received here today by
Constable Gulson, of Ora Banda, Billy died a lonely death— but the
death he preferred — in the bush.
Police supervised the burial, which was carried out with ap
propriate ceremony by natives.
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